Top 100 Quotes About Ambrose
#1. Ambrose managed to fight his way free long enough to shout, Am I the only ghost here doesn't know how to ghost?
Abigail Roux
#2. Good job, Ambrose," Wilem said sarcastically. "You caught him. He stole your fire." One of the onlookers chimed in, "Yeah, make him put it back!
Patrick Rothfuss
#3. I have it on good report that not only does Ambrose have a tiny, tiny penis, but he can only become aroused when in the presence of a dead dog, a painting of the Duke of Gibea, and a shirtless galley drummer.
Patrick Rothfuss
#4. And there was Ambrose. To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship.
Patrick Rothfuss
#5. Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
Robert Herrick
#6. But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
Oliver Stone
#7. Ambrose turned on his heel and stormed off, but before he made it through the door, Elodin burst out singing:
'He's a well-bred ass, you can see it in his stride!
And for a copper penny he will let you take a ride!
Patrick Rothfuss
#8. There's a lot I don't understand ... but not understanding is better not believing - Ambrose
Amy Harmon
#9. Such efforts show the truth of the remark of St. Ambrose: that the saints were no less liable than ourselves to fall into faults; but that they had greater care to practise virtue, and to correct the faults into which they fell.
Candide Chalippe
#10. On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
Victor LaValle
#11. One wouldn't have noticed it before, but now it was obvious. It was as though Ambrose had opened an inlet to something previously invisible, and Alma could finally see a truth she would otherwise have been blind to forever.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#12. Over two hundred years," Jeanne said, finishing his sentence as she shoveled a mountain of scrambled eggs onto Ambrose's plate. Her gave her a ravishing smile, and said "Marry me, Jeanne" leaning over to kiss the hand holding the serving spoon. "In your dreams," she laughed...
Amy Plum
#13. She could no longer remember what Ambrose looked like, or smelled like, or was like. All she knew was Cassius Clayton McLinn. All she wanted began and ended with him.
Laura Frantz
#14. The Ambrose Malachai will never be forgotten. But it's up to you as to how he'll always be remembered.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#15. No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
H.P. Lovecraft
#16. The seer crow was outraged. "Mangiz does not forget an insult, hedgepig."
Ambrose smiled cheekily. "Good, then here's a few more for you to remember, you pot-bellied, cross-eyed, feather-bottomed excuse for a duck.
Brian Jacques
#17. GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Chet Williamson
#18. Your dad says that 'cause he loves you. Just like my mom tells me I'm pretty 'cause she loves me. I'm not pretty ... and you can't beat Ambrose, buddy.
Amy Harmon
#19. When his father asked why A wasn't apple or B wasn't bird or C wasn't cat, young Ambrose explained that things didn't always have to be the way you'd expect. Everybody does apples and birds and cats, he said, and it's boring to do what everybody else does.
C.S. Richardson
#20. Just then the door flew open, and Ambrose burst through, yelling like a madman and swinging a battle-ax in one hand.
Amy Plum
#21. Why is she convinced Ambrose is out to get her" Leif asked
"Ambrose?" Yelena raised a slender eyebrow. She carried a tray of tea and fruit. "You're on a first name basis with the Commander now?"
"I usually call him Amby, but not in mixed company.
Maria V. Snyder
#23. How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?" I gave it a moment's hard thought. "A meat pie, or a fruit pie?
Patrick Rothfuss
#24. Whoever John Stoner is, he is no magician. He could not have made you into a hero if you had not already possessed the raw material. -Concordia Glade to Ambrose Wills.
Amanda Quick
#25. All this yummy muscleness first thing in the morning is almost too much for me to take," she cooed, and gave him a playful wink as she scooted herself into the front seat. I shook my head. If "Flirt" qualified as a foreign language, my sister and Ambrose would both have PhDs in it.
Amy Plum
#26. Look at the plucky young thing! She is trying to make a funny, said Lord Ambrose snidely.
Gail Carriger
#27. Meaning, I need you to focus. If you want to save Madaug, you need to listen to me or the mortents will eat both of you Pop-Tarts for breakfast. (Ambrose)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#28. Augustine was struck by the fact, when they first met, that Ambrose read to himself, a habit unknown to the classical world: 'His eyes scanned the page, and his mind penetrated its meaning, but his voice and tongue were silent.' There were other impressive things about Ambrose.
Paul Johnson
#29. And you haven't been betrayed yet, Nick. You don't know what that's like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#30. Do you think there's any way someone like Ambrose could fall in love with someone like me?" Fern caught Bailey's gaze in the mirror again, knowing he would understand.
"Only if he's lucky.
Amy Harmon
#31. Ambrose Phillips ... who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#32. For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion.
John Barth
#33. The thought of Peter and John Ambrose McClaren in the same space together again is discomforting. Where would I even look?
Jenny Han
#34. I love you, Fern."
"You do?" Fern squealed.
"I do. It doesn't get better than Fern Taylor."
"It doesn't?" Fern squeaked.
"It doesn't." Ambrose couldn't help laughing at her incredulous little face.
Amy Harmon
#35. Scripture comforts me, and romance novels give me hope." "Oh yeah? Hope for what?" "Hope that I'll be doing more than quoting scripture with Ambrose Young in the very near future".
Amy Harmon
#36. And then I stopped thinking about Prince Ambrose of Pirenti, because he was destroying me.
Charlotte McConaghy
#37. Ambrose Young felt himself slip and slide, falling helplessly
with very little resistance
in love with Fern Taylor.
Amy Harmon
#38. How did you know I needed you?" Fern whispered in broken tones.
"Because I needed you," Ambrose confessed without artifice, his voice thick with heartache.
Amy Harmon
#39. She raised her own glass, filled with a deep red wine. "To Ambrose Jakis," she said with sudden fierceness. "May he fall into a well and die.
Patrick Rothfuss
#40. One reason for not writing a lost-in-the-funhouse story is that either everybody's felt what Ambrose feels, in which case it goes without saying, or else no normal person feels such things, in which case Ambrose is a freak.
John Barth
#41. Before or After? Fern:
Before, anticipation is usually better than the real thing.
Ambrose: After. The real thing, when done right, is always better
than a daydream. Fern wouldn't know, would she? She let that one
slide.
Amy Harmon
#42. Love is the Creator's greatest invention and, as St. Ambrose said, that is especially true when our entire spirit and body are involved in this extraordinary rite, which is after all the rite of our own birth and of our descent.
Dario Fo
#43. I love you," he said quickly. "If I don't come back ... "
"No," Ezra hissed. "No, you must."
"Know I loved you a lifetime's worth," Ambrose gasped. "A lifetime.
Abigail Roux
#44. Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.
Patrick Rothfuss
#45. If dark chocolate could sing it would sound like Ambrose Young.
Amy Harmon
#46. It's okay to be scared," Ambrose said solemnly." I know I am. As long as you let the fear drive you, rather than hold you down.
Abigail Roux
#47. It is a very pretty observation of old Isaac Ambrose that the gum which exudes from the tree without cutting is always the best.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#48. Lost or Alone? Ambrose said alone, and Fern responded, "I would much rather be lost with you than alone without you, so I choose lost with a caveat." Ambrose responded, "No caveats," to which Fern replied, "Then lost, because alone feels permanent, and lost can be found." Streetlights
Amy Harmon
#49. Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.
Brian Jacques
#50. Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.
Ambrose Bierce
#51. While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
Ambrose Bierce
#52. The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.
Ambrose Bierce
#53. In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.
Stephen Ambrose
#54. MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.
Ambrose Bierce
#55. Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
Ambrose Bierce
#56. VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
Ambrose Bierce
#57. PALM, n. A species of tree ... of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed ... This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
Ambrose Bierce
#58. When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.
Ambrose Bierce
#59. TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.
Ambrose Bierce
#60. I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.
Lauren Ambrose
#61. Todd says that the doctor was rather horrified because we passed a German who had had his head shot off, but his arms and legs were still waving about and strange noises were coming out of him, and i thought even the doctor was a bit turned over by that.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#62. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
Ambrose Bierce
#63. ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.
Ambrose Bierce
#64. It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
Stephen Ambrose
#65. MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
Ambrose Bierce
#66. DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
Ambrose Bierce
#67. Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Ambrose Bierce
#68. RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.
Ambrose Bierce
#69. EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.
Ambrose Bierce
#70. In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent
Ambrose Bierce
#71. You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
Ambrose Bierce
#72. HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
Ambrose Bierce
#73. RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.
Ambrose Bierce
#75. A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something
Ambrose Bierce
#76. Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
Ambrose Bierce
#77. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.
Ambrose Bierce
#78. But a voting-machine that human ingenuity can not pervert, human ingenuity can not invent. That
Ambrose Bierce
#79. True repentance is to cease from sin.
Ambrose
#80. DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed ... deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.
Ambrose Bierce
#81. SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
Ambrose Bierce
#82. In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.
Ambrose Bierce
#83. Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
Ambrose Bierce
#84. BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.
Ambrose Bierce
#85. PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
#86. It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.
Saint Ambrose
#87. OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
Ambrose Bierce
#88. Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
#89. Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce
#90. NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
Ambrose Bierce
#91. You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
Ambrose Bierce
#92. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
Ambrose Bierce
#93. Any reform of that fundamental nature, potentially constitutional, it has to go to the people. It has to be a be a referendum, and that's why it was a plebiscite in all of the provinces in which it's been attempted.
Rona Ambrose
#94. The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Ambrose Bierce
#95. DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.
Ambrose Bierce
#96. WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.
Ambrose Bierce
#97. He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.
Ambrose
#98. UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.
Ambrose Bierce
#99. If you want to be a hero, the Germans will make one out of you real quick - dead!
Stephen E. Ambrose
#100. No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
Saint Ambrose
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